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“One should offer bali, always including
Incense, lamps,¹⁰⁶⁷ perfume, and beautiful garlands.
One should do everything respectfully,
Following the previously described procedure.

“In front of the wheel-holding monarch,
In the center, one should place a full jar.
A mantra adept should not allow this jar,
Which is called ‘victory,’ to be moved.

“One should then dig the fire pit,
Following the right procedure,
And commence the homa rite,
Employing none other than the mantra of the Lord.

“One should offer into the fire of cutch tree sticks
One thousand and eight oblations
Consisting of sticks of the dhak, sandalwood,
Bilva, cluster fig, or sandan tree.

“One can likewise offer devil’s horsewhip¹⁰⁶⁸
In all types of activity, applying care.
Alternatively, one can offer sesame seeds smeared with ghee
And mixed with burnt gandha.¹⁰⁶⁹

“In all types of activity,
One should always offer one thousand and eight oblations
At the three junctions of the day as previously described.
As taught by the sages,¹⁰⁷⁰

“One should bathe, put on clean clothes,
Eat the three ‘white foods,’¹⁰⁷¹ choose an auspicious nakṣatra,
And perform the previously described rituals,
Including recitation, homa, and others.

“One should perform all of [the above]
Employing One Syllable, who is like¹⁰⁷²
The [entire] family of Cakravartin employed as a mantra.
One should employ him in all rites.¹⁰⁷³

“This sole hero, always without maṇḍala companions,¹⁰⁷⁴
Applies himself to his tasks with great power.
One should perform the rites for all mantras
Always reciting him during the performance.

“Every rite will then be accomplished—
The rites for the mundane mantras, preferred by the world;
And for the supramundane, of great valor;
And for the vidyārājas possessed of intense ascetic ‘heat.’¹⁰⁷⁵

“All the mantras taught in this manual,
And other mantras, will be successful¹⁰⁷⁶—
Those taught by the sages;
By their sons possessed of the ten powers;

“By Śakra and other world protectors;
By Viṣṇu, Śiva, and Brahmā;
By Sun, Moon, or other [luminaries];
By the kings of yakṣas or the rākṣasas;

“By mahoragas, or kinnaras,
Or by the best of terrestrial sages;
And by garuḍas, mātṛs,¹⁰⁷⁷
Humans, or other beings.

“All the mantras that have ever been taught
Will reach accomplishment here,
As One Syllable gathers in himself all mantras
And is the leader in all rites.

“He is the leader in all rites
As he controls all mantras.¹⁰⁷⁸
He is the enthraller of all beings,